Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.
Luke Winkie caught Chaz Bundick (Toro y Moi) for a quick chat at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010 in Austin, TX. So how long have [...]
“Not In Love,” originally by the 1980s New Wave band Platinum Blonde, was covered by Crystal Castles for their latest album — and now they’ve [...]
With the addition of new drummer Kyle Mabson along with a new residency in Los Angeles, California, XBXRX are releasing a brand new 10-song seven-inch [...]
As the summer days die away, Verbicide Select Mixtape roars back to life with a seventh volume, now available for free download. We’ve got classic [...]
So much has already been said about The Flaming Lips’ live shows. It’s a little like the summer of 1999 when all anyone could ask [...]
Like the static in between radio stations, a person’s initial reaction to the disorganized, fuzzy, throbbing noise is often irritation and annoyance. Occasionally, the whisper [...]
Listening to this album, it occurs to me that I don’t grasp what the intended setting for the music is. It spans the electronic music [...]
How apt that the track list for Repetition, Kenseth Thibideau’s solo debut, relies so heavily on space imagery. “Black Hole,” “Eclipse,” a handful of numbered [...]
The self-titled debut from the experimental pop trio Sonoi was released worldwide on the independent record label Meno Mosso on April 27, 2010. The album was engineered [...]
So long as you don’t take them any more seriously than they do themselves, you’ll surely find something to enjoy about Prizzy Prizzy Please and [...]
Tobacco’s second offering of swamp-grind psychedelia, Maniac Meat, is out now on Anticon, and critics and fans alike are buzzing about it. Those who missed his brief spring tour [...]
Usually it’s necessary that I travel to Seattle or Portland to go to shows, but I found out that Growing would be stopping by during Arts Walk on their national tour. Growing actually formed in Olympia in 2003, later migrating east to Brooklyn. The band recently released their eighth album, Pumps, a sexy, throbbing affair that sounds like a couple of motherboards making sweet love to an Atari while an electric guitar plays with itself in the corner.
As previously reported, the lone guest on Tobacco’s new album, Maniac Meat (out May 25th on anticon), is Beck. A no-brainer collaboration, Beck’s lyrics and vocal treatments alternately spar and [...]
If you are already tired of the newly drafted “chillwave” genre, that imagined sound that includes electronic acts like Neon Indian, Washed Out, and an [...]
